Battle game speed..too fast?

**Lord Condormanius** · 11-30-2006, 07:41

Originally Posted by Sinan

The battle speed is fine.

The unit speeds are slightly too fast, for the terrain they are covering.

A little slower, specially on the heavy infantry/cavalry would be ideal.

I agree. You can only swing a sword around for so long.

**Dave1984** · 11-30-2006, 10:35

The only complaint I have regarding speed at all is that my halberd militia take three years to get across the field- the damn fools consistently walk in sloooooooooooooooow moooooooootioooon. Even with spearwall off.

**Rothe** · 11-30-2006, 10:48

This is a difficult issue. I think that for me to be able to finish a grand campaign I have to play battles quite fast and also to autoresolve many battles, as a single battle can take 15-30 min of real time and with my turtle style (H/VH) I am on the defensive and some battles do not "progress" the game too much at all.

So, I think there should be a way to slow down the speed in MP at least, maybe in SP as well, but the current speed is a decent default. I mean, I could not play with 2x speed anyway if the game was slowed down...

I understand that in MP the slower battle speed would make things more interesting and it does not really matter if it takes 10 min more to play a battle. So I completely understand your point about the speed. In SP I can use the pause as much as I like, so I prefer a good pace.

**Quickening** · 11-30-2006, 10:54

Originally Posted by D Wilson

The only complaint I have regarding speed at all is that my halberd militia take three years to get across the field- the damn fools consistently walk in sloooooooooooooooow moooooooootioooon. Even with spearwall off.

In fairness, it cannot be easy to run with such weapons especially when in a regiment.

**Dave1984** · 11-30-2006, 11:06

Originally Posted by Quickening

In fairness, it cannot be easy to run with such weapons especially when in a regiment.

Nope, but it's not hard to walk with them at 3-4mph.

**fuzzilogik** · 12-01-2006, 18:42

Feels about right to me.

**Vlad Tzepes** · 12-01-2006, 18:47

I'll never forget my 4 hours battle against the Mongol Horde (with several reinforcement waves on each side) in MTW 1. 4 hours, starting midnight.

And then it crashed.

I feel MTW2 has the appropriate battle speed - not blitz-clashes like RTW, not yawning hours of waiting for the end in MTW 1.

**Doug-Thompson** · 12-01-2006, 18:50

Originally Posted by D Wilson

The only complaint I have regarding speed at all is that my halberd militia take three years to get across the field- the damn fools consistently walk in sloooooooooooooooow moooooooootioooon. Even with spearwall off.

Ye gods. Is that in loose formation?

**ChewieTobbacca** · 12-01-2006, 19:10

Game speed is NOT fast at all... movement might be a bit faster than MTW1, but given the maps now are HUGE, it's quite reasonable

Kill rates are also quite slow when playing on VH in a balanced battle... i've had lines of dismounted knights melee it out for minutes before I finally won the cavalry fight and swung them around for a flank